catcalls and gears are set to turn for cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing but the obama's handpicked men seemingly spit tougher questions over drones and targeted executions. tens of thousands marched on spain's streets amid calls for the government to go after a fresh round of budget cuts and sees a spike in university fees and the end of free prescription drugs for pension and. tunisia could be stretched to the limits as a country gears up for more protests and even strikes on the day of the funeral of the opposition leader whose murder unleashed the new anti-government sentiment. and a drive to bail in the u.k. aims to open up a bit online communications to the authorities for their concerns it's taking national security and stepped off.

its ten am here in moscow you love with us on our team with me to them would say it's good to have you company president obama picked the heads of the cia has received a grilling as he faced of the senate in his confirmation hearing the session began with tongues and years before the audience was kid out lawmakers and poked and prodded john brennan on things from torture to drones but appeared to back off when push came to shove arches gannets as you can now report on the questions that were in dost. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s. government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have

been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks and he basically says the u.s. government could execute people who are what they haven't done yet and you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat because these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog that he hates america as he concedes wife died in

a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there were so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not sneer another grilling on the part of the senators to gets receive fifty answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas wines to go down quote an informed high level of social of the u.s. government determines that target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent threat. at the very beginning of the hearing as john brennan was delivering his remarks he was interrupted five times or so by protesters who stood up and express shouted out whether their

opposition to those executions senators had to take a recess for for the protesters to be removed from the hearing and these protests are steered by numerous reports that the drone strikes kill innocent people as well not just suspected terrorists everybody expected tough questions on drugs but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. a private hearing now a way to john brennan in order to iron out technicalities but given his performance at that the senate scholar and author of exporting made in america democracy colin cavell says they could all set a dangerous precedent this is a complete to our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment do grant so those are war and equal protection of the law and here with the ministry she is doing here is they're usurping the constitutional right minded to the american

citizens and so we can be judge jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them in their court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the danger and this is one of the good ministrations is we can determine who the jurors did and that means you know we were hurt in any american citizen without any drugs without any publicity and that is a very dangerous precedent. drone warfare is consequences and the reality of it all up for debate and cross talk today coming up next we get how drone strikes me breeding the very terror they seek to destroy. is quite horrific in africa but it's getting worse i mean this is a new new drawn be a snow in nigeria close to mali so that you've got the west of african as well and

so it's trucking up so that we're going to have drawn be a says all over africa i'm not sure what to suppose really why are we doing this well isn't it. the most effective recruitment tool for insurgents in the world david what do you think about that drones are an improvement on torture drones or an appointment of a ground war these are the arguments were being given and yet we didn't have a ground war in yemen we might need one eventually left with the damage the drone strikes are doing but that this is we're being told that this type of murder is better then all of their human rights abuses. tens of thousands of suit in santee teachers have taken to the streets of spain on the largest day of protest so far america calls for the government to step aside spain's public sector is facing fresh cuts with they head to education expected to be nearly five billion euros polish midge produce said artie's rup to video

agencies spoke to some of the demonstrators. hundreds of people are gathered here in madrid to complain about cuts in education they are mostly students parents of students and teachers but the education is not their only concern they're also demanding the resignation of the government the government of money and other who has been accused of receiving bribes from private companies and opening bank accounts in switzerland look at the people you can see burton's saying calling spain the last vegas of the european union and also complaining about the lack of democracy that people are protesting and there is no solution to their complaints the salary of a teacher. if i have to pay a mortgage and everything i can to send two kids to university i will have the money and how is privatization in the educational sector hourman education in spain well they see everything us business no matter what you do it ok shouldn't should

be an occasion for people to make money out of it today don't see it as a public service or not you know the whole service is the same they save you get ill if you have a problem you are a customer and you are you are good they're going to make money out of you it's just a reaction they did the money and everything to their budgets we have. no provision for the public system this has become a trademark of sonny's the most gracious after every march those sweeping trucks come rapidly and sweep all the streets leaving no evidence that there was a demonstration against the government. a budget battle in brussels as a fresh eight summit kicks off shows the blocks traditional economic powerhouses aren't seeing eye to eye with pushing leading calls for cuts to the budget as france think uses the u.k. of hypocrisy on this just ahead. tunisia

is bracing itself for third straight day of street battles friday sees the fatal. a key opposition figure who's a fascination became a catalyst for the latest wave of anti-government fury the country's trade unions have also called a general strike to protest against. murder which some opinion on this limits leadership in the latest showdown police used tear gas on a mob throwing stones angry protesters chanting anti government slogans were trying to approach the country's interior ministry in the capital tunis art is crew was also caught up in the rest as artie's maria for national report. temperatures is still very high and tensions are still at the very dangerous the very risky level the level that is threatening and challenging the security instability in this country protests have been continuing a strong those days you see many many people on the streets they've been many clashes between police and a position supposed to stand again police have been using tear gas against

protesters my crew and neve we've been attacked by a group of youngsters based tell us just because we filmed them and that tells a lot about the situation on the ground we've been hearing about similar violence is similar disturbances assault to a country especially in the southern part of tunisia where we had school just over the ruling party have been vandalized the protests may go even more violent intentions may go even further because friday will be the day of the funerals of the opposition leader country could be paralyzed no one will be working today and nothing will be open that is of the country paralyzed has been attempts to ease the tensions in the country from the prime minister in the idea was to form a government that will not be affiliated to any political party no cost to government but the islamist party dominated to nieces governing coalition and rejected. ministers decision ok i understand the raise and internal political crisis definitely would be very hard for this country to overcome this crisis.

iran's helping hand to cheney egypt as it gives the strike. country alone is mind beating under the several rounds of crippling economic sanctions if coming up in a few minutes. the british government is trying to get its hands on private weapon from ation it's drawn up a document referred to by some as the snoop with which looks to give authorities more rights to spy on its citizens online despite concerns over an invasion of privacy are to use a server further looks knowledge whether such measures could enhance national security. area of concern surrounds this the draft communications data bill and proposals that critics say could see the public left wide open to having their facebook account which they e-mails read everything that they visit online the websites that they gayety logs by the government now understandably those plans have pleaded hugely controversial with critics labeling it the sneak is in charge

now that's a little concerning if they leave before by the intelligence and security committee they'd like to see any nationwide surveillance regime implemented now the government say that they need to do this to catch criminals and stop terrorism but the slopes of the members of the public saying where are safeguards when it comes to what we do online will speak more about this i'm now joined by professor and sneakily to the director studies security and intelligence studies at the university. thank you very much for joining us you're in support of the draft communications data bill i heard you describe yourself at a recent talk the skunk at the picnic if these these and these proposals are so unpopular why are the government pushing them through all the time when the government is pushing them through because the government realizes that they're needed some thirty million people use the internet to communicate with each other

each day in the united kingdom people in this country fully accept that more than one hundred years there goes that telephone conversations are likely to be mine if this cd is a national security risk so it's completely absurd to think that there should be this new form of communication that should somehow be exempt from these sorts of measures ok but he say to focus furrowing need need to warrant with the proposals the i did the perhaps my information to find them versus public underling nothing. why should my e-mails be localized my twitter account be a frontier investigation well it's important to realize that this is not a charter to mine everyone it's a charter to mine anyone against who there is intelligence of being a serious risk to our national security in one way or another and in a chance that members of the public would still be kept retaining well what the

government is asking the internet service providers to do is to retain data that at the moment they're just getting rid of so if there is a suspicion that a particular person is engaging serious organized crime sex trafficking or terrorism the government can then institute wrote as a member of the public was like oh my e-mails for a well if you don't want your e-mails pro. your nor engaged in any kind of illegal activity your emails to people brooke if you want if you want complete privacy don't write any letters to your friends don't speak to them on the telephone and don't send them photographs of yourself in joking that can very much for joining us to fester and see if that has that is the solution maybe is the time for a big log of things hey someone is actually watching surface london.

so this parliament is edging the president out of power but on a crackdown on dissent and revelations of human rights abuses now that the us really has been prevented from making his admiral address even though he's still president all the details coming up. and image is everything even the myth the continuing economic crisis e.u. leaders plan to spend millions on an on line up against a blitz aimed at enhancing the block's reputation by the use of social media that's all off the shelf. technology innovation called developments around russia we've gone to the future or covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you

glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know but i'm trying hard welcome to the big show. you. welcome back you're watching r t a you vegas have started tough negotiations over

the blocks next budget valid full seven years from two thousand and fourteen the financial wrestling comes with u.k. prime minister david cameron in one corner meeting calls for major spending cuts and prices hit countries in the album artist as a silly explains what else makes the talks so complex. we've seen some of the leaders who had arrived here already making strong statements first of all we've david cameron continuously saying that if the budget is not brought down to a level that he is happy with there will be no deal we've heard from other countries who are saying that they may use their veto if they're not happy such as the czech republic to simplify the of the current going on right now it would be between a northern and southern countries you could say the wealthier nations versus those that actually depend more on the e.u. funding on the one hand you have countries like the u.k. germany the netherlands denmark these countries are supporting harsher cuts to the e.u. budget david cameron being the most radical and controversial taking this step now

he has been demanding since november last year in two thousand and twelve that was the first try today is the second try and since that until now he's been demanding for cuts in brussels bureaucracy for instance but on the other side you have those countries who are dependent on these forums and one of the loudest voices on this is a lot of friends also the u.k. is coming into this summit this is the first time since david cameron announced that in or out referendum that can said that he would pose the question of whether they should remain. twenty seven if he's really reelected in twenty fifteen of course this is a possibility of a creating even more tension in the u.k. with the cost benefit of actually being a member of the e.u. interpreted by the other members not being a team player in this regard and also as this talk is happening talking about budget cuts on the e.u. level we see the budget cuts on a more local ground level we've seen the protests continuing even until today

people very angry at the. imposed on them on their livelihoods of their pensions are on their potential jobs well that you cannot agree upon a budget of their own. if that image is everything in politics and in these times of austerity the e.u. is eager to do whatever it takes to maintain a good reputation even if it means spending big two million us have apparently been earmarked to spend on a p.r. war with own lines euro skeptics nigel farage from the came dependent party think such actions show the block is no more than a banana republic but they decided that they got to train in house staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european

union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman of the parliaments around the world but he has all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself for thirteen years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying

we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. online let the olympic begin fireworks on a spectacular show you round off a day of celebrations in russia's black sea resort of sochi marking one year i'm told the most expensive winter games have. also alien life wal-mart scientists claim that our galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable planets with more on that i don't see. the georgian parliament has postponed president saakashvili as annual address to

his party now minority refused to agree to constitutional amendments removing his right to fire the government the president's policy lost his grip on poly in a recent parliamentary vote putting a crackdown on protests and claims of human rights abuses against political prisoners arches unless you are a chef he has been hearing firsthand accounts. georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state will be one of the top business destinations in the world while it would be high could be academic freedom according to the world bank i'll be number one fighter with corruption worldwide and many people started to believe in the stations people started to believe them ocracy it was because saakashvili is giorgio really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your viewpoint when he's universities rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half yes behind bars no. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating

us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. your he thought he was spending his time with murder isn't drug barons instead he found himself among academics architects and right all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and he used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. he had often been joked out in school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses are put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. weeks before last

year's parliamentary vote news of a successful counterterrorism operation in eastern georgia made headlines eleven suspected militants from russia's north caucasus were killed but some said the whole thing was a hoax to discredit russia and in fact the slain men were georgians. first of all their weapons were american made second none of them fired off a single shot but not all the uniforms of the so-called fighters were brand new this was saakashvili has planned he has sent his guys across the border into russia and then had them shot by the georgian police this was a set up just to frame russia shortly after that event a shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgian jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half which lost both the election and control over the country it's not yet known whether second street will face prosecution over the prison torture allegations that for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the chance to walk free because saakashvili will formally remain as georgia's president until

october but he's powers have already been transferred to the prime minister it's anybody's she has already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but experts say there was socialization may take several more years saakashvili still tried to block the amnesty with furious comments. i will not sign papers which will allow paedophiles and racists to walk free. let the parliament claim responsibility for that but let's see russia r.t. reporting from police in georgia. iran has extended a helping hand to egypt offering a learning to the cash strapped country and also plans to invest some more ensuite done all this despite the fact that to run itself is the subject to severe economic sanctions imposed by the u.s. and its nuclear program economist and commentator ana mokhtari told r.t. that egypt has no choice but to accept help from we can get it but i think egypt

has has made it quite clear that it wants to go and see where it stands but the muslim brotherhood has come to the realisation that with a cunt three as important as powerful as iran in the region. they will have to be given take and should they decide to such a conference confrontational cause with iran it would it would prove counterproductive so egypt is in dire straits it will require assistance from any number of muslim countries to get back on its feet again. now let's have a look at some other international news in brief islamist fighters in marjah say they're opening a new front in their battle against french supported government troops the new tactics will include guerrilla attacks and the use of landmines one of which apparent the recently killed or mali and soldiers the government however says the

victims were civilians this comes as the french army prepares to leave the country by the end of the month and seeks u.n. peacekeepers to take over security. today that in the end a large scale rebel of sold in the syrian capital damascus appears to have stalled with the tillery and is strife limiting the insurgent momentum government forces are also recaptured and he told linking the capital with the city of aleppo trapping a bloody two day back these intensify clashes come amid dimming prospects of peace talks with an apparent rebel offer to negotiate with reporters they refused by the opposition elements and up next how to make a million dollars in an hour we'll talk to an author of a book exposing wall street's super profitable schemes that's after the break don't miss that one.